Its not a rip off of Home,just one section of home[bowling alley] home still has game specific ares with game specific mini-games other areas like the redbull space where you can fly planes and more the ea complex with racing and golf chipshot mini games so on. and that new area witch name escapes me at the moment.I love my ps3 and rarely play my 360 anymore. Borderlands still consumes my ps3 playtime.

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The first thing that comes to mind is: how much will it cost. I can't imagine microsoft giving something like this away for free, you'll probably have to pay for every game and prop in your own arcade.

Edit: nevermind found it: You can buy a game for between 240-400 Microsoft Points, or if you really want that old arcade feeling, you can pay 40 Microsoft Points and play the game once, like it was 1985 and you'd just dropped a quarter. Only, now it's two quarters.

I can't believe how many people are claiming this is a "rip-off of Home". To me this only seems to be an arcade, you know those things that used to exist? But even if Microsoft were to introduce some kind of 3D chat room, I still wouldn't feel they were ripping off Sony.

Is no one here aware of how large scale social networking in these days? Habbo Hotel, Second Life, IMVU, etc, all 3D "Home-like" chat systems, all of which were done well before Home. Even Google, Yahoo and Microsoft itself have 3D chat environments for messenger programs. The 360 moving into that territory eventually is innevitable, I don't see why "Sony did it first is a factor".

Sony fanboys seem to be pretty fickle when it comes to this. I don't remember any complaints about the trophy system being added in, the Playstation Store, gamercards, the Classics being made available.. hell, even PSN itself is heavily based on XBL and they even just announced plans to make PSN cross compatable with other mediums, that's copying too, right? So again, why is such a big deal when Microsoft release something with some similarties to something on the Playstation. If you think they're the only ones guilty of this, you deserve to be kicked off this site and sent back to GameFAQs.

Obviosly because the trailer didn't show queue's there won't be any when it's live. So how does it work? I 'trick out' an arcade and all my friends can come along. As long as they are gold subs. As long as they also own the games? Hmm.

I think by "better than Home", you XBox360 fanboys really mean, "just as pointless and stupid as Home."

Except, you know, being a fanboy makes it physically impossible for you to acknowledge when something on your system-of-choice is retarded.

It all comes down to this: if I want to play Frogger or Centipede (which I don't, and I was actually alive when those games were relevant), why the HELL would I want to go though an extra layer of Second Life bullshit just to play them?

I'm curious.. at what point did Giant Bomb become such a den of haters? When this site was new almost all of the users were fairly mature and even minded. Where did you haters come from exactly? It'd be awesome if you either went back or grew up.

" I'm curious.. at what point did Giant Bomb become such a den of haters? When this site was new almost all of the users were fairly mature and even minded. Where did you haters come from exactly? It'd be awesome if you either went back or grew up. "

I think the idea of having avatars in a virtual arcade physically walking up to and using arcade machines, disallowing others to play them, is a really, really, really bad idea regardless of whether sony or microsoft is involved.